Skip to content

Update FAQ, HTTP timeout example #251

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
parente wants to merge 2 commits into
base: main
Choose a base branch
from
+10 −3
Open

Update FAQ, HTTP timeout example #251

Show file tree
Hide file tree
Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
2 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
c00fed4
doc: Correct HTTP timeout in FAQ
parente Dec 7, 2025
f7d82e1
fix: Configure http_client correctly
parente Dec 7, 2025
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion docs/getting-started/FAQ.mdx
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ icon: question

## Usage
### How do I configure HTTP request timeouts?
By default, HTTP requests timeout after 5 seconds. If you have API endpoints that take longer to respond, you can configure a custom timeout by injecting your own httpx client.
By default, HTTP requests timeout after 10 seconds. If you have API endpoints that take longer to respond, you can configure a custom timeout by injecting your own httpx client.

For a working example, see [Configure HTTP Timeout Example](https://github.com/tadata-org/fastapi_mcp/blob/main/examples/07_configure_http_timeout_example.py).

Expand Down
11 changes: 9 additions & 2 deletions examples/07_configure_http_timeout_example.py
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
"""
This example shows how to configure the HTTP client timeout for the MCP server.
In case you have API endpoints that take longer than 5 seconds to respond, you can increase the timeout.
In case you have API endpoints that take longer than 10 seconds to respond, you can increase the timeout.
"""

from examples.shared.apps.items import app # The FastAPI app
Expand All @@ -13,7 +13,14 @@
setup_logging()


mcp = FastApiMCP(app, http_client=httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=20))
mcp = FastApiMCP(
app,
http_client=httpx.AsyncClient(
transport=httpx.ASGITransport(app=app, raise_app_exceptions=False),
base_url="http://apiserver",
timeout=60.0,
),
)
mcp.mount_http()


Expand Down